Most nights that the girls take a bath I let them take one together. I only put a few inches of water in, and I go in the room across the hall and get some work done while I listen to them play. If they are quiet I talk to them to make sure they are okay, but they make a good bit of noise so I usually just listen. If they drop something or make a loud noise they will both say “we’re okay” before I have a chance to ask them.

Last night about 25 minutes into the bath I heard GlitterGirl scream “Mooommmmeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!”.

And I knew what had happened from the tone of her voice. It’s never happened before, and I don’t know how I knew, but I just did. I was in the bathroom almost immediately and saw Glittergirl standing with a foot on either side of the tub, up on the rim, and her hands on the wall one side of it, balancing. I reached for her and helped her out of the tub and knew what I’d see when I looked into the water.

How many have guessed it?

Yep, TwinkleToes went number two. Luckily they were hard pieces and not diarrhea.

GlitterGirl insisted on taking a shower and soaping up. I guess I can’t blame her. I did the same for TwinkleToes just to be on the safe side. She didn’t like it and I pointed out to her that it is very bad to go potty in the bathtub and we had to make sure she was clean. She burst into tears and said she was saw-wee. Broke my heart.

When RK came upstairs later that night (and TT should have been asleep in her crib), we saw her little head pop up and she said, “Potty, bafff” and burst into tears again. I told her it had been an accident, that it was very bad to go potty in the bathtub, but that she wasn’t going to do it again and everyone was clean now. She hugged me and said “yeah”, then asked for a hug from daddy and let us settle her back into her crib.

Glittergirl told me this morning that she wants to take her bath alone tonight. I can’t really blame her, but I’m hoping to get her to reconsider.

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